But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks... The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes ... - Page 295by John Milton - 1903Full view - About this book
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...went Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, . groul The bended twigs take root, and daughters gro About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...more favoured days, aiid thence describe the tree " to Indians known," which — In Malabar, or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree. I have now brought together two names which hold no inconsiderable station among The genuine kings... | |
| Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...more favoured days, and thence describe the tree " to Indians known," which — In Malabar, or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree. I have now brought together two names which hold no inconsiderable station among The genuine kings... | |
| William Duane - Caracas (Venezuela) - 1826 - 652 pages
...has given it the beautiful leaves of the banana : the passage is as follows : There soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But...to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arras, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow... | |
| Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...unclean. So counselled he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose 1 100 The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renowned, But...between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, 1108 Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds 1109 At loop-holes cut through thickest shade... | |
| John Nichols - England - 1828 - 702 pages
...BOY. Here, father. 1 Milton treads rather closely upon the heels of Jonson here : " The fig tree that In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Paradise Lost, ix, 1100. COOK. Bring forth... | |
| Nature - Home economics - 1829 - 178 pages
...Paradise Lost, Book 9 :— "There soon they chose The fig tree ; not that tree for fruit reuown'd, But such as, at this day (to Indians known In Malabar...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillar'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman shunning... | |
| Forests in art - 1830 - 272 pages
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| John Milton - 1831 - 328 pages
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